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RELIGIOUS PRACTICE IN JAPAN: TEXTS, RITUALS AND BELIEVERS
RPIJ 20-21 COURSE HANDBOOK
RPIJ SCHEDULE OF LECTURES 2020
Guidelines and Instructions
Announcements
SCHEDULE OF PRESENTATIONS
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1. What is ‘Japanese Religion’ and How Can We Study it?
The Practice of Religion (Babb-SAGE HB)
Intro RPIJ issues in the study of Jpn religion
2. Shinto: The National Religion of the Japanese?
SHINTO FILE: facts (Powerpoint). Sign in using your SOAS username and password!
Shinto Issues (powerpoint)
Havens, Nanzan Guidebook
Breen and Teeuwen
Amino Deconstructing Japan
3. The Shaping of Japanese Religion
MComo Weaving Chapt 1 with notes
Nihon ryoiki
Bowring Soniryo
powerpoint
4. Japanese Adaptations of Chinese Buddhism
Groner In Paths to Liberation
Five Periods From deBary et al, Sources 1
powerpoint
5. Esoteric Buddhism and the 'Esoterization' of Japanese Religion
Yamasaki, Shingon (Characteristics)
Yamasaki, Shingon (cosmology)
Hakeda Kukai Sokushinjobutsugi)
Dolce Secrecy reducedfile
Ryûichi Abé The Weaving of Mantra (Mantra and Abhiseka)
6. Medieval Buddhism
Bodiford Medeival period Nanzan Jpn Rel Guidebook
Jean Noel Robert shakyoka
Dolce prophecy SAGE
powerpoint
7. Zen: New Rhetoric, Old Practice? The discourse on Zen -- East, West, and back to the East
Foulk, Zen Rituals
BENESCH Reconsidering Zen, Samurai, and the Martial Arts
zen and the gozan(required)
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8. Eschatologies
de Bary et al Sources of Japanese Tradition, Volume 1, 2nd ed Pure Land
Powerpoint
9. The Combinatory Nature of Japanese Religion: Shinbutsu shûgô through history
Introduction Buddhas and kami
Faure FluidPantheonChapterOne
Inoue_Suwa
Dolce_Duality
Hachiman BScheid Nichibunken
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10. Christianity in Japan
higashibaba
The cult of emptiness chapt 1
powerpoint
11. Searching for the Roots of Contemporary Religiosity
POWERPOINT
sonehara edo
sawada
12. New Religions
RECORDING OF SESSION
Powerpoint 1 (Meiji religion)
Powerpoint 2 (New Reliigons)
13. Mountains, horoscopes, and the rubric of ‘folk religion’
kawahashi folk religion
Sekimori akinomine
Powerpoint
14. Death and other worlds
Groemer Shamans
Carmen Blacker The Catalpa Bow Ch8
Powerpoint
15. Occult religion
possession in Japanese religion pre-printed version
0 Bouchy-Hom-1-2000.Je est un autre
16. The Performance of Religion
C Bell Characteristics of Ritual
Sharf -Ritual
shunie dolce
17. Visual religion
faure
NHK documentary on Dainichi statue
Useful titles on Religion and Film
18. The Religious Body
Blacker The Catalpa Bow (Ascesis)
19. Gender and Japanese Religions
Glassman Blood Pool Hell
Faure homosexuality in The Read Thread
underwood mizuko
Balkwill tennyokyo
PandeyPerfumedSleevesCh1
PandeyNotesCh1
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15PSRC071-A20/21 Religious Practice in Japan: Texts, Rituals and Believers A20/21
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